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10.11.2014
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I was running.
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I didn't know what I was running from,
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But I knew that I had to get away.
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The problem was, there was no where to hide.
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Whatever it was, it wasn't slowing down.
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Suddenly, a person appeared the same way that Alice had done earlier.
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Hoping that it was her, I slowed down and began walking to her,
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Forgetting about what I was running away from.
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I tapped on her shoulder when I was close enough.
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"Alice?" I asked, wishing with every fibre of my being that it was her.
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But my face darkened as soon as I saw my mother's face with tears in her eyes.
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"Mom?"
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She didn't reply.
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Instead, she turned around and continued to cry.
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"What is a mother supposed to do when her son is like this?" I heard her say.
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Since when did she care? I bitterly thought to myself.
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"I'm sorry for treating you the way I did Leo. Just please; come back to us."
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My head started to spin when she said that.
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Alice had said something similar,
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"please wake up Leo..."
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Did something happen to me?
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I felt fine;
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Great in fact.
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And that's when it dawned on me.
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I didn't feel any pain.
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For the first time in a very long time, I couldn't feel any pain.
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But how could that be?
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The doctors had all said that it would be nearly impossible for me to recover.
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So what was going on now?
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Why was I suddenly feeling as if I had fully recovered?
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I felt my knees grow weak, causing me to sit down on the green grass.
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There was only one reason I could think of for this feeling:
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Death.
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Could I possibly be... dead?
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Tears streamed from my eyes as that possibility began to make more sense.
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But even though I didn't feel the pain that my sickness brought,
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I was still in pain in my chest.
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The thought of never seeing my family,
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Despite how they treated me,
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Caused my heart to constrict.
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But that pain was nothing,
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Compared to the pain from the thought of never seeing Alice again.
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The girl who put so much effort to make me smile,
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And to make my day brighter.
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I lay myself on the ground into a fetal position as I cried,
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Wishing for the first time in my life,
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That I could feel the pain that I felt every day that I was on the hospital bed.
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Because with that pain,
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Came the chance to live again.
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